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Hm, unexpected. #KPopDemonHunters von Sony Animation war überraschend brauchbar im Vergleich zum sonstigen Animations-Slop, der aktuell so rumfliegt. Nicht gut, aber durchaus brauchbar, wenn man Musicals und Animation mag.

Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowledge distillation
Zhen Han, Mattias Teye, Derek Yadgaroff, Judith B\"utepage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18352

Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowledge distillation
The training of high-quality, robust machine learning models for speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a large, diverse dataset of high-quality audio-animation pairs. To overcome the lack of such a dataset, recent work has introduced large pre-trained speech encoders that are robust to variations in the input audio and, therefore, enable the facial animation model to generalize across speakers, audio quality, and languages. However, the resulting facial animation models are prohibitively l…

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Fang Kang, Yin Cao, Haoyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19225 https://

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting: given a face image and text to speak, generating both talking face animation and its corresponding speeches. Accordingly, we propose a novel framework, Face2VoiceSync, with several novel contributions: 1) Voice-Face Alignment, ensuring generated voices match fa…

This is really lovely. #animation

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
Zehuan Huang, Haoran Feng, Yangtian Sun, Yuanchen Guo, Yanpei Cao, Lu Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19851

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to fixed skeletal topologies or require costly optimization in high-dimensional deformation spaces. In contrast, AnimaX effectively transfers video-based motion knowledge to the 3D domain, supporting diverse articulated meshes with arbitrary skeletons. Our method r…

Various thi.ng updates, bug fixes, additions and new version of https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/ — now fully compatible with current Zig v0.14.1
On a more diary/devlog note: I also updated several of my Zig based work-in-progress art pieces to the latest version (some of them not touc…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Here's a Thinking Machines-inspired text animation for your terminal https://gist.githubusercontent.com/zeroeth/c0b83e7a856d01c9db46ee6d414a1654/raw/12ed0182b1d469a9ee861fb269ff6c02c7d3cee6/mode5.c

We’re learning how to create and share MEDIA in our “Creating Cool Websites” summer camp! Today we are adding AUDIO with Vocaroo to our “Favorite Animals”
Google Sites, and starting our “City Travel webpage” project with Adobe Express!
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/sum…

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Cool Websites
These are resources for "Creating Cool Websites," a June 23 - 27, 2025 summer camp led by Dr. Wes Fryer. SHARE A LINK! (Google Form) - View Our Links! Camp Structure (Daily Schedule - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM) 9:00–9:15: Greeting & Introduction to Design Process / Today's Focus 9:15–10:00: Skill

Gnome hat eine Option „Mauszeiger finden“: wenn ich die Ctrl-Taste drücke, leuchtet um den Mauszeiger eine Animation blauer Kreise auf.
Ich vergesse immer, daß es sie gibt, wenn ich wirklich mal nicht weiß, wo der Mauszeiger gerade ist, wackel ich wild mit der Maus hin und her.
Dafür werde ich bei intensiver Emacs-Nutzung von gefälliger Blubberblasen-Animation begleitet.

🎞️ Anime.js v4 is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API
#javascript #web

Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine
A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

Samsung's One UI 8 build animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be the Galaxy G Fold (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-g…

Exclusive: One UI 8 gives us our first look at Samsung's upcoming tri-fold phone
One UI 8 includes animation files that show off Samsung's first tri-fold, likely to be called the Galaxy G Fold. Check it out!

Coyote vs. Acme 8.28.26 - teaser poster and stills 💣💥
#movies #CoyoteVsAcme #2026Movies #animation

Integrating Large Language Models into Text Animation: An Intelligent Editing System with Inline and Chat Interaction
Bao Zhang, Zihan Li, Zhenglei Liu, Huanchen Wang, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10762

Integrating Large Language Models into Text Animation: An Intelligent Editing System with Inline and Chat Interaction
Text animation, a foundational element in video creation, enables efficient and cost-effective communication, thriving in advertisements, journalism, and social media. However, traditional animation workflows present significant usability barriers for non-professionals, with intricate operational procedures severely hindering creative productivity. To address this, we propose a Large Language Model (LLM)-aided text animation editing system that enables real-time intent tracking and flexible edi…

TIL (lors de la défense d’un mémoire) : Il y a 58 ans que l’on a hissé « un ordinateur géant ultra-moderne » au cinquième étage d’une banque genevois.
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TDG19670613-01.2.8.4

Neural Face Skinning for Mesh-agnostic Facial Expression Cloning
Sihun Cha, Serin Yoon, Kwanggyoon Seo, Junyong Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22416 https:…

Neural Face Skinning for Mesh-agnostic Facial Expression Cloning
Accurately retargeting facial expressions to a face mesh while enabling manipulation is a key challenge in facial animation retargeting. Recent deep-learning methods address this by encoding facial expressions into a global latent code, but they often fail to capture fine-grained details in local regions. While some methods improve local accuracy by transferring deformations locally, this often complicates overall control of the facial expression. To address this, we propose a method that combi…

found this fun animation on peertube
#animation

#NowPlaying “Desi Oon”, an Indian stop animation short using Deccani wool to spread awareness of its neglect in the wake of urbanization and a tribute to shepherd Balumama who dedicated his life to sustainable pastoralism. https://www.

TIL Homer Simpson's namesake was born in Saskatchewan.
Oh, and Marge dies. (don't worry, no spoilers, everyone dies!)
#Simpsons #Animation #TIL #Saskatchewan #MattGroening
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-simsons-marge-simpson-dies-1.7570422

South Korea's CJ ENM, which produced Parasite, unveils a comprehensive AI content strategy at the premiere of its first fully AI-generated animation series (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cj-enm-ai-strategy-cat-biggie-12…

CJ ENM Debuts AI Animation 'Cat Biggie' as Part of New AI Strategy
CJ ENM unveils AI content strategy with debut of 'Cat Biggie,' a 100% AI-generated animation series, plus new proprietary production tools.

Everybody is crushing their challenges, but I'm ashamed to have lost my 0 post challenge for this year :) Here is the evidence: https://www-gem.codeberg.page/picom/.

Done some more work with the VR animation engine today.
Seems to now be working that I can lay in the path that the character will walk, and then puppet their limbs as they walk it.
Done more work to standardize how all the slapdash episode structure is so now there's also a #wip #starshipsd #gamedev

#TimMinchin's Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Amazing animation video for all people who are enlightened by

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

Just found the video again of an old experiment from 2009, showcasing the volumetric voxel brush and mesh conversion of my Java geometry libraries. Even though it's very different, but as for the overall aesthetics, this is the first thing I thought of when seeing the White Tower...
https://mastodon.thi.ng…

I'm live! Last two scenes of the animation, getting closer :neofox_3c:
https://twitch.tv/demirramon

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Guian Fang, Yuchao Gu, Mike Zheng Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17301 https:/…

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on complex architectures, explicit guider modules, or multi-stage processing pipelines, which increase structural overhead and hinder deployment. Inspired by the strong visual context modeling capacity of pre-trained video diffusion transformers, we propose Fram…

Any of my Godot comrades here know if there's a way to get the "Animation Key and Pose Options" into the 3D scene and not just the 2D? I mainly just want that auto keying feature for my 3D scene.
#Godot

Controllable Expressive 3D Facial Animation via Diffusion in a Unified Multimodal Space
Kangwei Liu, Junwu Liu, Xiaowei Yi, Jinlin Guo, Yun Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10007

Controllable Expressive 3D Facial Animation via Diffusion in a Unified Multimodal Space
Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion manipulation, and (2) deterministic regression-based mapping that constrains the stochastic nature of emotional expressions and non-verbal behaviors, limiting the expressiveness of synthesized animations. To address these challenges, we present a diffusion-based …

Pixar's Chief Creative Officer Says AI Is the 'Blah Average of Things' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/pixar-chief-creative-officer-pete-docter-ai-jobs-animation-2025-7

This could be great!
Cartoon Network Studios is expanding the beloved “Steven Universe” franchise with a brand-new series, “Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars,” now in development for Prime Video.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/ste

1st PR opened to add a setting allowing you to choose how many columns you want your library displayed with in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
Here's a screenshot of me viewing #movies in genre vi…

Last weekend the Defa Film Library started a virtual festival titled "The Colorful World of DEFA Animation: A Short History". Throughout July and August every few days a anther example of East German animated film will go online. The overall streaming link on the website is good from now until the end of August.
https://www.

Before I go to bed, I set the delay and fading animation in my GIF profile picture to a long 5000 on ezgif.com to make sure it doesn’t cause dizziness when people view it!
You can create your own animated GIF profile picture easily at: https://ezgif.com

London- and Paris-based Animaj, a kids' media company that uses proprietary generative AI production tools to automate animation pipelines, raised $85M (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/global/…

HarbourView Equity Leads $85 Million Investment in Animaj
HarbourView Equity Partners is leading a $85-million investment in Animaj, the AI-powered media company specializing in kids & family entertainment.

I am in awe
The animation
the storytelling
The drama
https://youtu.be/DxiMRnqWSQE

I’m waiting for someone — with better animation skills than I have — to make a satirical film where Superman and Captain America round up Trump, his government, project 2025 leads, and Netanyahu and dump them all in an alligator-infested swamp where they all get eaten. They are all craven cowards who attempt to feed each other to the gators in an attempt to save themselves.
The film ends with Supe and Cap standing in front of the White House, US flag waiving and the Star Spangled Banne…

I'm interested in making my own visualizations of weather radar data to display patterns in a region of the US (covered by multiple stations) over longish periods of time (e.g., a month).
Think something like this year of US radar, but smaller & shorter in my case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPuDPxK88g0
I'm familiar with mapping and animation in Python/R, but not weather radar data. I've been looking for tutorials, but haven't been able to track any down yet. Pointers very much welcome

I made an animation of the Villarceau circles moving across the torus, seen as a square with opposite edges glued together. (source and better quality here)

London- and Paris-based Animaj, a kids' media company that uses proprietary generative AI production tools to automate animation pipelines, raised $85M (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/global/…

HarbourView Equity Leads $85 Million Investment in Animaj
HarbourView Equity Partners is leading a $85-million investment in Animaj, the AI-powered media company specializing in kids & family entertainment.

One of the most fun projects I've worked on recently was the illustration for #Illustration #Work #Design #Animation #HTML

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Adriano Castro, Simon Hanisch, Matin Fallahi, Thorsten Strufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11138

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises novel privacy concerns. With mixed reality systems becoming more immersive and widespread, understanding whether face motion data can lead to user identification or inference of sensitive attributes is increasingly important. To address this, we conducted a stu…

China's state TV broadcaster has revealed details of a new
"graphite bomb"
that can cause a "complete loss of electricity" across an area of 10,000 square meters,
or knock out entire power stations, the South China Morning Post reported.
An animated video released by China's CCTV showed a missile being launched from a ground-based launcher
and then flying to a target where it releases 90 small submunitions.
They then bounce on t…

Video teases new Chinese blackout bomb that can knock out enemy power stations
Animation shared by state broadcaster shows what appears to be graphite bomb designed to disrupt command and control systems.

InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
Zhenzhi Wang, Jiaqi Yang, Jianwen Jiang, Chao Liang, Gaojie Lin, Zerong Zheng, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09984

InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
End-to-end human animation with rich multi-modal conditions, e.g., text, image and audio has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. However, most existing methods could only animate a single subject and inject conditions in a global manner, ignoring scenarios that multiple concepts could appears in the same video with rich human-human interactions and human-object interactions. Such global assumption prevents precise and per-identity control of multiple concepts including humans and …

This is a great article about what's happening to #CartoonNetwork (and the US animation industry in general)
https://www.bloomberg.co…

Learning to use my media tools- I made some video therapy.

I made the music in Reason and the animation in After Effects. I might have borrowed a few pictures from the web too.
It might not be pretty, but it's also not AI!
#resist #support

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Generative AI assistants have been widely used in front-end programming. However, besides code writing, developers often encounter the need to generate animation effects. As novices in creative design without the assistance of professional designers, developers typically face difficulties in describing, designing, and implementing desired animations. To address this issue, we conducted a formative study (N=6) to identify the challenges that code developers face when dealing with animation desig…

Just a reminder that you don't need to be on WP to do the fade in thingy - nice that they can finally do it though.
on https://www.simoncox.com I added
main{
animation: fadeIn 1s;
}
@keyframes fadeIn {
0% { opacity: 0; }
100% { opacity: 1; }
}

"Rascal Does Not Dream Of Santa Claus" TV ANIME NEW TRAILER REVEAL!
Air Date: July 5, 2025
Animation Studio: CloverWorks
(Seishun Buta Yarō wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0YvFDF57Y

Some Battle of Tarot animation tests with Spine. This is our character based off of The Magician tarot archetype.
#BattleOfTarot #GameDev

MMS Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign Language avatars
Fabrizio Nunnari, Shailesh Mishra, Patrick Gebhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16463

MMS Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign Language avatars
This paper describes the MMS-Player, an open source software able to synthesise sign language animations from a novel sign language representation format called MMS (MultiModal Signstream). The MMS enhances gloss-based representations by adding information on parallel execution of signs, timing, and inflections. The implementation consists of Python scripts for the popular Blender 3D authoring tool and can be invoked via command line or HTTP API. Animations can be rendered as videos or exported…

Free course: "The Stories We Live By," an online course in ecolinguistics provided by the University of Gloucestershire.
"The course examines a wide range of texts from advertisements, lifestyle magazines and economics textbooks to surfing guides, Native American sayings and Japanese animation. In each case, the question is whether the stories that underlie texts encourage us to care about people and the ecosystems that life depends on."
Link to course:

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Zijie Wu, Chaohui Yu, Fan Wang, Xiang Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09982

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training data. In this paper, we present AnimateAnyMesh, the first feed-forward framework that enables efficient text-driven animation of arbitrary 3D meshes. Our approach leverages a novel DyMeshVAE architecture that effectively compresses and reconstructs dynamic mes…

I can't believe how great #KPopDemonHunters is! Great animation, but this one is of course full of pop music: the first act has not one but two catchy songs and stylish music videos with barely a moment to catch a breath.
Rhyming "mascara" with "napalm era"? Duuuuude.
And then there's my favourite: "mirror mirror on the phone" 😁

Poking @…

I'm live! Back to animation, I gotta lock in.
https://twitch.tv/demirramon

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Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
Hao Li, Ju Dai, Xin Zhao, Feng Zhou, Junjun Pan, Lei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23290

Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
In 3D speech-driven facial animation generation, existing methods commonly employ pre-trained self-supervised audio models as encoders. However, due to the prevalence of phonetically similar syllables with distinct lip shapes in language, these near-homophone syllables tend to exhibit significant coupling in self-supervised audio feature spaces, leading to the averaging effect in subsequent lip motion generation. To address this issue, this paper proposes a plug-and-play semantic decorrelation …

[Blog] Journée mondiale de jeu
#convention
https://debellum.hirlimann.net/index.php?post/2025/06/01/Journée-mondiale-de-jeu

AniMaker: Automated Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation
Haoyuan Shi, Yunxin Li, Xinyu Chen, Longyue Wang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10540

AniMaker: Automated Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation
Despite rapid advancements in video generation models, generating coherent storytelling videos that span multiple scenes and characters remains challenging. Current methods often rigidly convert pre-generated keyframes into fixed-length clips, resulting in disjointed narratives and pacing issues. Furthermore, the inherent instability of video generation models means that even a single low-quality clip can significantly degrade the entire output animation's logical coherence and visual continuit…

GeoAvatar: Adaptive Geometrical Gaussian Splatting for 3D Head Avatar
SeungJun Moon, Hah Min Lew, Seungeun Lee, Ji-Su Kang, Gyeong-Moon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18155 htt…

GeoAvatar: Adaptive Geometrical Gaussian Splatting for 3D Head Avatar
Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying geometrical deviations across facial regions, resulting in suboptimal quality. To address this, we propose GeoAvatar, a framework for adaptive geometrical Gaussian Splatting. GeoAvatar leverages Adaptive Pre-allocation Stage (APS), an unsupervised method that se…

Design an Editable Speech-to-Sign-Language Transformer System: A Human-Centered AI Approach
Yingchao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14677 https://

Design an Editable Speech-to-Sign-Language Transformer System: A Human-Centered AI Approach
This paper presents a human-centered, real-time, user-adaptive speech-to-sign language animation system that integrates Transformer-based motion generation with a transparent, user-editable JSON intermediate layer. The framework overcomes key limitations in prior sign language technologies by enabling direct user inspection and modification of sign segments, thus enhancing naturalness, expressiveness, and user agency. Leveraging a streaming Conformer encoder and autoregressive Transformer-MDN d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20156 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

HunyuanVideo-Avatar: High-Fidelity Audio-Driven Human Animation for Multiple Characters
Recent years have witnessed significant progress in audio-driven human animation. However, critical challenges remain in (i) generating highly dynamic videos while preserving character consistency, (ii) achieving precise emotion alignment between characters and audio, and (iii) enabling multi-character audio-driven animation. To address these challenges, we propose HunyuanVideo-Avatar, a multimodal diffusion transformer (MM-DiT)-based model capable of simultaneously generating dynamic, emotion-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16331 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMM_…

Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
The study of talking face generation mainly explores the intricacies of synchronizing facial movements and crafting visually appealing, temporally-coherent animations. However, due to the limited exploration of global audio perception, current approaches predominantly employ auxiliary visual and spatial knowledge to stabilize the movements, which often results in the deterioration of the naturalness and temporal inconsistencies.Considering the essence of audio-driven animation, the audio signal…

This animation from the 2000s randomly or (shall I say magically) found it's way from the abyss of my memory... and so I sang it to my daughter and she loved it.
https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?si=1S5kAU47mVdGuHeY

This is very good. #shortfilm #animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9CTDM3l4M

Speak2Sign3D: A Multi-modal Pipeline for English Speech to American Sign Language Animation
Kazi Mahathir Rahman, Naveed Imtiaz Nafis, Md. Farhan Sadik, Mohammad Al Rafi, Mehedi Hasan Shahed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06530

Speak2Sign3D: A Multi-modal Pipeline for English Speech to American Sign Language Animation
Helping deaf and hard-of-hearing people communicate more easily is the main goal of Automatic Sign Language Translation. Although most past research has focused on turning sign language into text, doing the reverse, turning spoken English into sign language animations, has been largely overlooked. That's because it involves multiple steps, such as understanding speech, translating it into sign-friendly grammar, and generating natural human motion. In this work, we introduce a complete pipeline …

#DebugArt #STRATA #GenerativeArt #AlgorthmicArt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Omni Trio:
🎵 Renegade Snares
#OmniTrio
https://traxhaven.bandcamp.com/track/omni-trio-renegade-snares-portway-re-animation
https://open.spotify.com/track/4M04cLgZVSQq97IG2Uh2NE

HumanRAM: Feed-forward Human Reconstruction and Animation Model using Transformers
Zhiyuan Yu, Zhe Li, Hujun Bao, Can Yang, Xiaowei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03118

HumanRAM: Feed-forward Human Reconstruction and Animation Model using Transformers
3D human reconstruction and animation are long-standing topics in computer graphics and vision. However, existing methods typically rely on sophisticated dense-view capture and/or time-consuming per-subject optimization procedures. To address these limitations, we propose HumanRAM, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable human reconstruction and animation from monocular or sparse human images. Our approach integrates human reconstruction and animation into a unified framework by introdu…

After Furality Somna is over I'm gonna lock in SO HARD and finish my goddamn animation

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16331 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMM_…

Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
The study of talking face generation mainly explores the intricacies of synchronizing facial movements and crafting visually appealing, temporally-coherent animations. However, due to the limited exploration of global audio perception, current approaches predominantly employ auxiliary visual and spatial knowledge to stabilize the movements, which often results in the deterioration of the naturalness and temporal inconsistencies.Considering the essence of audio-driven animation, the audio signal…

More #STRATA...
#GenerativeArt #AlgorthmicArt #Barricelli

PromptVFX: Text-Driven Fields for Open-World 3D Gaussian Animation
Mert Kiray, Paul Uhlenbruck, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01091

PromptVFX: Text-Driven Fields for Open-World 3D Gaussian Animation
Visual effects (VFX) are key to immersion in modern films, games, and AR/VR. Creating 3D effects requires specialized expertise and training in 3D animation software and can be time consuming. Generative solutions typically rely on computationally intense methods such as diffusion models which can be slow at 4D inference. We reformulate 3D animation as a field prediction task and introduce a text-driven framework that infers a time-varying 4D flow field acting on 3D Gaussians. By leveraging lar…

Dream, Lift, Animate: From Single Images to Animatable Gaussian Avatars
Marcel C. B\"uhler, Ye Yuan, Xueting Li, Yangyi Huang, Koki Nagano, Umar Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15979

Dream, Lift, Animate: From Single Images to Animatable Gaussian Avatars
We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D Gaussians. Given an image, we first dream plausible multi-views using a video diffusion model, capturing rich geometric and appearance details. These views are then lifted into unstructured 3D Gaussians. To enable animation, we propose a transformer-based enco…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[6/10]:
- AniCrafter: Customizing Realistic Human-Centric Animation via Avatar-Background Conditioning in V...
Niu, Cao, Zhan, Zhu, Ma, Zhao, Zeng, Zhong, Sun, Zheng

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Shuyang Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Mingyi Shi, Liang Pan, Leo Ho, Jingbo Wang, Yuan Liu, Cheng Lin, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang, Taku Komura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11949

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Enabling virtual humans to dynamically and realistically respond to diverse auditory stimuli remains a key challenge in character animation, demanding the integration of perceptual modeling and motion synthesis. Despite its significance, this task remains largely unexplored. Most previous works have primarily focused on mapping modalities like speech, audio, and music to generate human motion. As of yet, these models typically overlook the impact of spatial features encoded in spatial audio sig…

iDiT-HOI: Inpainting-based Hand Object Interaction Reenactment via Video Diffusion Transformer
Zhelun Shen, Chenming Wu, Junsheng Zhou, Chen Zhao, Kaisiyuan Wang, Hang Zhou, Yingying Li, Haocheng Feng, Wei He, Jingdong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12847

iDiT-HOI: Inpainting-based Hand Object Interaction Reenactment via Video Diffusion Transformer
Digital human video generation is gaining traction in fields like education and e-commerce, driven by advancements in head-body animation and lip-syncing technologies. However, realistic Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) - the complex dynamics between human hands and objects - continues to pose challenges. Generating natural and believable HOI reenactments is difficult due to issues such as occlusion between hands and objects, variations in object shapes and orientations, and the necessity for prec…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
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- OmniHuman-1: Rethinking the Scaling-Up of One-Stage Conditioned Human Animation Models
Gaojie Lin, Jianwen Jiang, Jiaqi Yang, Zerong Zheng, Chao Liang

HPR3D: Hierarchical Proxy Representation for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction and Controllable Editing
Tielong Wang, Yuxuan Xiong, Jinfan Liu, Zhifan Zhang, Ye Chen, Yue Shi, Bingbing Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11971

HPR3D: Hierarchical Proxy Representation for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction and Controllable Editing
Current 3D representations like meshes, voxels, point clouds, and NeRF-based neural implicit fields exhibit significant limitations: they are often task-specific, lacking universal applicability across reconstruction, generation, editing, and driving. While meshes offer high precision, their dense vertex data complicates editing; NeRFs deliver excellent rendering but suffer from structural ambiguity, hindering animation and manipulation; all representations inherently struggle with the trade-of…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
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- EchoMimicV2: Towards Striking, Simplified, and Semi-Body Human Animation
Rang Meng, Xingyu Zhang, Yuming Li, Chenguang Ma

Quality assessment of 3D human animation: Subjective and objective evaluation
Rim Rekik, Stefanie Wuhrer, Ludovic Hoyet, Katja Zibrek, Anne-H\'el\`ene Olivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23301

Quality assessment of 3D human animation: Subjective and objective evaluation
Virtual human animations have a wide range of applications in virtual and augmented reality. While automatic generation methods of animated virtual humans have been developed, assessing their quality remains challenging. Recently, approaches introducing task-oriented evaluation metrics have been proposed, leveraging neural network training. However, quality assessment measures for animated virtual humans that are not generated with parametric body models have yet to be developed. In this contex…

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AnyTop: Character Animation Diffusion with Any Topology
Generating motion for arbitrary skeletons is a longstanding challenge in computer graphics, remaining largely unexplored due to the scarcity of diverse datasets and the irregular nature of the data. In this work, we introduce AnyTop, a diffusion model that generates motions for diverse characters with distinct motion dynamics, using only their skeletal structure as input. Our work features a transformer-based denoising network, tailored for arbitrary skeleton learning, integrating topology info…

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Zahra Dehghanian, Morteza Abolghasemi, Hossein Azizinaghsh, Amir Vahedi, Hamid Beigy, Hamid R. Rabiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00988

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Digital creators, from indie filmmakers to animation studios, face a persistent bottleneck: translating their creative vision into precise camera movements. Despite significant progress in computer vision and artificial intelligence, current automated filming systems struggle with a fundamental trade-off between mechanical execution and creative intent. Crucially, almost all previous works simplify the subject to a single point-ignoring its orientation and true volume-severely limiting spatial …

Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
Yuan Gan, Jiaxu Miao, Yunze Wang, Yi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01591

Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
Advances in talking-head animation based on Latent Diffusion Models (LDM) enable the creation of highly realistic, synchronized videos. These fabricated videos are indistinguishable from real ones, increasing the risk of potential misuse for scams, political manipulation, and misinformation. Hence, addressing these ethical concerns has become a pressing issue in AI security. Recent proactive defense studies focused on countering LDM-based models by adding perturbations to portraits. However, th…

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DragPoser: Motion Reconstruction from Variable Sparse Tracking Signals via Latent Space Optimization
High-quality motion reconstruction that follows the user's movements can be achieved by high-end mocap systems with many sensors. However, obtaining such animation quality with fewer input devices is gaining popularity as it brings mocap closer to the general public. The main challenges include the loss of end-effector accuracy in learning-based approaches, or the lack of naturalness and smoothness in IK-based solutions. In addition, such systems are often finely tuned to a specific number of t…

Semiautomatic Simplification
Gong Li, Benjamin Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01116 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01116

Semiautomatic Simplification
We present semisimp, a tool for semiautomatic simplification of three dimensional polygonal models. Existing automatic simplification technology is quite mature, but is not sensitive to the heightened importance of distinct semantic model regions such as faces and limbs, nor to simplification constraints imposed by model usage such as animation. semisimp allows users to preserve such regions by intervening in the simplification process. Users can manipulate the order in which basic simplificati…